"If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish."

Next Quote

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.

— Alexis de Tocqueville